Stratovarius - Drummer Wanted

Drummer wanted!

We have now played the final Latin America gigs with Jörg Michael, who is leaving the band after 16 years. 2011 started with the release of the "Elysium" album and was a long year with a long world tour together with Helloween. After some time off, we are now looking to the future, composing material for the next album, and we are also looking for the next drummer. 

We have some great candidates already, but since we have a bit of time, we decided to also cast a wider net to see what comes up. So, if you have some touring and recording experience, are - more important - musical and hard hitting, and - most important - a nice dude, you might be the one we are looking for!

If you think this sounds like you, playing in a world famous metal band for a living sounds like something you'd enjoy, and if you want us to listen, please put on some headphones and record a video of yourself playing any of these three Stratovarius songs: Coming Home, Father Time or Deep Unknown. You can for instance upload them to youtube.

Send the video links and a short letter with your personal information to this email address: drummer@stratovarius.com

What do you have to lose? The world awaits you! Plus money, fame, great times, and all the beer you can drink.

With best regards,
Jens, Lauri, Matias and Timo

PAGAN FEST 2012

Sacred Reich 25 Anniversary Tour 2012

SACRED REICH EUROPEAN TOUR 2012

Crystal Viper - Cimen Excepta 2012

"Crimen Excepta" tracklisting / listwa utworów: 1. Witch's Mark 3. Child Of The Flame 5. It's Your Omen 7. Crimen Excepta (feat. David Bower of HELL) 9. Medicus Animarum 11. The Spell Of Death 13. Hope Is Gone, Here's New Law 15. Fire Be My Gates CD bonus tracks / utwory bonusowe na wersji CD: 17. Tyrani Piekiel (VADER cover song, feat. Peter of VADER) 18. Ghosts Of Sherwood (from the "Robin Hood: Ghosts Of Sherwood" motion picture soundtrack)

February 10th, 2012 :: NEXT INFORMATION ABOUT NEW ALBUM
10 lutego, 2012 :: KOLEJNE INFORMACJE O NOWYM ALBUMIE

CRYSTAL VIPER, will release their new album titled "Crimen Excepta" on April 27 (in Europe) and April 24 (in United States) via AFM Records - release date for Japan will be announced very soon. The concept effort about holy inquisition, black magic and witches, where fiction is mixed with historical facts, has been produced by Bart Gabriel (SACRED STEEL, JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR) and recorded with sound engineer Mariusz Pietka (MORTICIAN, LONEWOLF), is the heaviest and most dark album CRYSTAL VIPER ever did. There will be two special guests on "Crimen Excepta": David Bower, vocalist of HELL appear in the title track, while VADER mainman Peter will be heard in the cover version of the classic VADER song "Tyrani Piekiel", which will be available as the bonus track on the first, limited edition of the album. So most probably CRYSTAL VIPER is the first ever Heavy Metal band, which re-arranged and recorded Death Metal cover song. "We already announced that fans should expect the unexpected. The new album is different than everything CRYSTAL VIPER did in the past. Of course it's still traditonal Metal, and it's still CRYSTAL VIPER - but this time, everything was different, starting from the compositions, through our attitude and inspirations, up to equipment we used and the recording session itself" says CRYSTAL VIPER frontwoman Marta Gabriel. "It was amazing to have Peter in the studio, we all are huge fans of VADER, and I think he was also amazed when he heard how our voices sound together in this Heavy Metal version of "Tyrani Piekiel". And when you will hear the lines of William The Judge recorded by David of HELL, you will have jaw on the floor. We had." she adds.

Delain`s European Tour 2012

Delain is back on Tour, here is the Flyer from the European Tour. I will be there. Great !!